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St Paul’s grievous error Death, i.e.
halting, stopping, slicing, deciding, is the sine qua non of perfection (i.e.
of creating real fact status). ….. as Jesus
demonstrated with his voluntary death on the (i.e. His) Cross (i.e. limit). The
itinerant tent maker, St Paul (of Tarsus), got that one badly wrong. In Romans
5:12, Paul states: “Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and
death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: …”.
Paul claims,
though without producing compelling evidence to support his claim, that death
results from sin (i.e. from ‘missing the mark’, Greek: hamartia) i.e. from
imperfection, in other words, from failure). He is right in principle, but
fails to tell the whole story! The whole
truth is that death (i.e. ending or halting of (analogue) process, the latter
being imperfect (hence sinful) because on-going) happens, must happen, to
create perfection, i.e. righteousness, i.e. real fact, hence reality, in a
word, life (and which was believed by the ancient Hebrews, but not by St
Augustine) to be ‘good’) That appears
to be the reason why the Hebrew national deity Yahweh Elohim (correctly
translated as Yahweh of the powers) created the adam mortal, then added ‘the
tree of life’ for possible life extension, as anyone can read in Genesis 2. Without
death (i.e. self-ending in or for copulation/food) absolute realness, and its
aftermath, new life (i.e. a new on-going process), cannot happen. In short,
death is not, as Paul claims, the punishment for sin (i.e. for sinful living,
or illness, as past Christians claimed) but sin’s (i.e. imperfect living,
because an imperfect process, i.e. life’s) fulfilment, sin’s ending (first as
virtual, then as absolute righteousness, as Jesus claimed). Death is the sine
qua non of life, i.e. the means of the food chain. Sin
& Failure, the religions’ angle |